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Quadruple   /kwɑdrˈupəl/   Listen
Quadruple

adjective
1.
Having four units or components.  Synonyms: four-fold, fourfold, quadruplex, quadruplicate.  "Quadruplex wire"
2.
Four times as great or many.  Synonyms: four-fold, fourfold.
verb
(past & past part. quadrupled; pres. part. quadrupling)
1.
Increase fourfold.
noun
1.
A set of four similar things considered as a unit.  Synonyms: quadruplet, quartet, quartette.
2.
A quantity that is four times as great as another.



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"Quadruple" Quotes from Famous Books



... complexion, fineness of texture. So the next element of literary art lies in the choice of words. Style must have richness and felicity. Words in a master's hands seem more than words; he can double or quadruple their power by skill in using; and this is a result so delightful, as to give to certain authors a value out of all proportion to their thought. There are books which are luxuries, livres de luxe, whose pages seem builded of more potent words ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867 • Various
... the velocity of vengeance. It was a fearful moment. Already he swam at a distance of less than six paces from his prey, his long snout projecting from the water, his gaunt jaws displaying their quadruple rows of ...
— The Rifle Rangers • Captain Mayne Reid
... of the cow-bird, how suggestive is this spectacle which we may see every year in September in the chuckling flocks massing for their migration, occasionally fairly blackening the trees as with a mildew, each one the visible witness of a double or quadruple cold-blooded murder, each the grim substitute for a whole annihilated singing family of song-sparrow, warbler, or thrush! What a blessing, at least humanly speaking, could the epicurean population ...
— My Studio Neighbors • William Hamilton Gibson
... thus placing the surprised observer in the unexpected presence of a triple group of suns. Five instances were noted of two pairs lying so close together as to induce a conviction of their mutual dependence;[103] besides which, 124 examples occurred of triple, quadruple, and multiple combinations, the reality of which was ...
— A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century - Fourth Edition • Agnes M. (Agnes Mary) Clerke
... had to buy at a greatly enhanced price, and many of the would-be victors were ruined. In 1873 the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern railroad was operated in connection with the Vanderbilt system, making a Palace Car route from New York city to Chicago. From New York to Buffalo a quadruple track, thence a ...
— Hidden Treasures - Why Some Succeed While Others Fail • Harry A. Lewis


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